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June Stewart, a CoSIDA Trailblazer
When June joined the Vanderbilt University Athletics Department in 1973 (first as a secretary before rising to Assistant AD prior to her retirement in 2003), she was one of the very few women employed by a college athletic department.
June Stewart began her career in the Vanderbilt sports information office in 1973 and was named assistant SID in 1977. From 1979-90, she served as Vanderbilt's women's sports information director. In 1990, Stewart was promoted to women's sports program director and assistant athletics director for future revenue sports.
In her three-plus decades in collegiate athletic administration, Stewart was on the ground floor of sweeping changes in college sports, working to publicize the widespread growth of women’s participation and women’s teams while implementing the important changes in athletic marketing and technology.
Stewart became the first woman to be president of CoSIDA for the 1990-91 academic year after entering the officers rotation as 3rd VP in 1987-88. She was inducted into the
CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1997 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2003, she received the
Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award from CoSIDA.
JUNE HOPTON STEWART
1940 – 2019
Visitation: Friday, Feb. 22 • 12:30 – 2:45 p.m. • Gathering Hall at Woodmont Christian Church (3601 Hillsboro Road, Nashville, TN 37215
Celebration of Life Service: Friday, Feb. 22 • 3 p.m. • Woodmont Christian Church (3601 Hillsboro Road, Nashville, TN 37215
Private Internment: Friday, Feb. 22 • 4:15 pm • Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Memorial Park (660 Thompson Lane, Nashville, TN 37204
Memorial Donations: In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the National Commodore Club, Vanderbilt University at 2100 West End Avenue, Suite 1200, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, or the Nashville Humane Society at 213 Oceola Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37209.
Story courtesy of nashvillepost.com
Pioneering administrator June Stewart has died
Member of multiple Halls of Fame was leading woman in college athletics during '80s, '90s.
by David Boclair
June Stewart, a longtime Vanderbilt athletics administrator and a pioneer for women in college athletics, died Tuesday following a lengthy struggle with the effects of Alzheimer's disease. She was 78.
A Nashville native and Hillsboro High School graduate, Stewart joined the Vanderbilt athletics department in 1973 as a secretary and retired in 2001 after eight years as associate director of athletics. Along the way, she built a reputation as one of the most influential females in college athletics, particularly in the field of sports information.
In 1990-91, Stewart was the first woman to serve as president of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She began as an assistant sports information director in 1975 and became Vanderbilt’s women’s sports athletics director in 1977.
In 1986, Stewart moved into administration when she was named Vanderbilt's senior women’s administrator. She was promoted to assistant athletics director for sports programs in 1991.
Her career also included stints on the NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee and the SEC Executive Committee.
The Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame inducted Stewart in 2004. She also is a member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame (1997), the Tennessee Sports Writers Hall of Fame (2007) and the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame (2008).
Three CoSIDA Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award recipients, l to r: Tammy Boclair (formerly of Vanderbilt), 2016 recipient and 2003-04 CoSIDA President; former ESPN VP Rosa Gatti (2009 recipient) and Stewart, the 2003 recipient. Gatti also was the 2003 Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award winner.
Stewart pictured with other CoSIDA Past Presidents during the 2006 CoSIDA Convention.
Past President Stewart with the CoSIDA Board of Directors in 1992-93.
Stewart with former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno (back row, next to Stewart) and other CoSIDA representatives at a GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame event in the 1990s.